The Clown With the Broken Heart

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When I was 15, my parents sent me to this college art program in the summertime. You could take painting and do figure drawing and that was my plan. When I got there there was no room in the painting class for some reason. And so I put me in the photography class kind of by accident. It actually came out within a couple months of when my first children were born. The next book is referencing that stage in life when you're anchored to home.

When everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket, what raises the act of taking pictures to the level of fine art photography? Jessica Todd Harper, the award-winning portrait photographer, says that it's equal parts mindset and technique--and lots of setting the stage to seize that perfect light. Listen as Harper speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her desire to capture the complexity of life in a single image, why family relationships and home life are her chosen subjects, and the integral role beauty plays in her images, despite its diminished status in art today.